OSHA Inspection: POWER MASONRY CORP.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:    (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, employees were not protected from overhead hazards while working in close proximity to masons laying concrete block from a scaffold system.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:  (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, eye and face protective equipment was not used when employees were mixing and applying cement while constructing a block wall.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):    (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, employees were not protected from falling while working from a scaffold platform that was not fully planked.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:  (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, employees were not protected from falling while working from a scaffold that was greater than 10 feet above a lower level.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was used to gain access:    (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, employees were not protected from falling while using a ladder that did not extend at least three feet above the upper landing surface.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladders were used for purposes other than the purpose for which they were designed:    (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, an extension ladder was separated into two single sections and used by employees to access a scaffold system.

Issued

2016-02-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $400.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:     (a) Worksite:  On or about 1/25/2016, the employer did not provide adequate training for the employees who might be exposed to fall hazards.